Learning with e's

JANUARY 16, 2011

But we all have access to the power of social media, and with appropriate use, and with enough of us involved, we are all watchers - and we can all make a difference. Reading a blog post by Jonathan MacDonald today got me thinking about the vast, untapped potential of the social web to inform, challenge, educate and motivate.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2015

The conference is themed around excellence in teaching of the social sciences, which reflects my own professional and academic background. During my undergraduate degree I specialised in psychology, but also studied a number of other social sciences, including politics, economics, sociology and human geography. I'm not the only one.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2019

In this post I will featuring direct quotations from legendary American psychologist Jerome S Bruner , whose work focused on the psychology of learning, pedagogical methods such as instructional scaffolding and the spiral curriculum , as well as social constructivist learning methods. Journal of Child Psychiatry and Psychology, 17(2), 89-100.

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OCTOBER 29, 2018

Whether it is sat during a break in a conference schedule; over a few drinks in the evening with a couple of colleagues; in breakout sessions; or simply sat discussing ideas across a social media channel; all of these can be rich veins of new thinking for me. Royal Society of Arts Journal , 3: 26-31. Reference Hyman, P.

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Learning with e's

MAY 22, 2014

Yesterday we examined the work of Albert Bandura on social learning theory. The theory Bruner''s theory of scaffolding emerged around 1976 as a part of social constructivist theory, and was particularly influenced by the work of Russian psychologist Lev Vygotsky. Journal of Child Psychiatry and Psychology, 17(2), 89-100.

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JANUARY 15, 2020

If a student is struggling in several subject areas however, this may be an indication of an underlying systemic or social problem, requiring more extensive pastoral support. American Educational Research Journal, 39 (1), 101-132. There is a solution to all of these challenges. References Blatchford, P. Gardner, J. (Ed:

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 10, 2012

Researching Social Media in Education: What can we learn? When asked, around 75% admitted that they had no involvement whatsoever with any of the social media or networking tools I was talking about. That was the main reason, I declared, that I resigned from my job as Co-editor of a major Taylor and Francis journal late last year.

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OCTOBER 26, 2021

Students and educators depend on access to scholarly journals, which in turn, develops a more robust knowledge and education, and spurs innovation, advancement, and growth in our societies. Instead of spending precious time trying to reinvent the wheel, educators cite and use OER resources that have already done the grunt work for them.

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Learning with e's

JULY 24, 2010

Before anyone points out the fact that paper based journal cost money to produce, edit, review, print and distribute, I want to make the following points: Most academic journals are run by academics on a voluntary basis - those who review for my journal don't get paid a penny.

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Learning with e's

DECEMBER 29, 2012

The latest issue of the online open journal eLearn Centre Research Paper Series has just been published. Image source Communication and learning in a digital age by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's.

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JUNE 15, 2012

I was challenged by delegates at Solstice to elaborate on the legal and ethical issues of Creative Commons and other Copyleft approaches. Creative Commons, I explained, is a means of circumventing Internet Copyright constraints. The ethics of this are clear - publicly funded research has been paid for out of taxes.

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Learning with e's

AUGUST 31, 2012

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology , 22, 453-474. Journal of Personality and Social Behaviour , 63 (5), 754-765. Photo by Steve Wheeler Teacher beliefs by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 References Ajzen, I. and Madden, T. and Azjen I. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

JULY 13, 2015

In yesterday's post entitled ' Open or shut ', I wrote about a rise in the number of academics who are turning their back on traditional research publications such as closed journals, in favour of more open, accessible outputs such as blogs and open access journals. That portion grew to 47% by 2013.

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Learning with e's

JANUARY 19, 2011

Do you think this has a big social impact? Of course, what I write on my blog is not institutionally checked, which is different to a publication in a scientific journal which may go through two blind peer reviews. This is also my personal experience, from the very first time I used computers to train nurses in hospitals in 1986.

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Learning with e's

JULY 30, 2016

In a recently published article, my colleagues Maged Boulos, Dean Giustini and I write about how learning through social media is transforming medical practices, health care and education. Here's an excerpt from the article, published in the open access journal Future Internet. The full text is available at this link. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

APRIL 4, 2016

Many keep libraries of books, journals and other media on their shelves, used for reference to remind them of theories, principles or methods they wish to recall. Some represent their learning through their conversations , both face-to-face and virtually through social media, with their colleagues, scholarly friends and associates.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 8, 2014

or the ‘social web’. and provide some examples of current pedagogical practice using the Social Web. Debate centres upon whether the emerging social applications constitute a sea change or revolution in the Web (cf. Essentially, the Web has become more social. As with most other technology innovations, Web 2.0

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Learning with e's

JULY 8, 2013

In fact, human civilisation has been founded upon change, and without teamwork, collective action, social movements and group effort, much of that change would not have been achievable. Shirky also underlines the importance of one specific aspect of the internet - social media tools - as ''amplifiers'' of ideas and collective actions.

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Learning with e's

MAY 7, 2013

Social media sites such as Twitter span huge distances to connect people around the world. There are many stories of people developing and sustaining friendship, or even romance and eventual marriage, after ''meeting'' on a social media site. It''s something we already know, or at least have suspected for a long time.

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Learning with e's

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

In my presentation, entitled The Good, the Blog and the Wiki, I tried to paint some broad brushstrokes on how students (and their teachers) are creating and sharing content that supports their learning, both socially and academically, through a range of social media. Sinful, I ask you. Good grief. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

SEPTEMBER 24, 2016

The popular social media company Snapchat (soon to be renamed simply 'Snap') has released news of a product which might just revolutionise the wearable technology industry. But balancing up the social concerns against the benefits of such a device, there are also possibilities for the improvement of personal safety and security.

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Learning with e's

JUNE 16, 2017

The web arrived, and we found ourselves beginning to network across the globe, forming the first social networks. The 00s was a time of more rapid change, where we witnessed the emergence of the social web, and mobile phones became smart. This was the beginnings of computer assisted learning. In the 90s, change accelerated.

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Learning with e's

AUGUST 24, 2012

Social media - often referred to as Web 2.0 , or the participatory Web - is shaping up to be one of the most important tool sets available to support the promotion of change in education. Almost everyone, it seems, is using some element of social media in the planning, development, delivery, management or evaluation of teaching and learning.

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Learning with e's

AUGUST 23, 2010

The Law journal has this definition of IP: "Intellectual property (IP) is a term referring to a number of distinct types of creations of the mind for which property rights are recognised - and the corresponding fields of law". And that is where the social media come in. Intellectual property is a strange and difficult concept.

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Learning with e's

MAY 24, 2014

Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior , 11 (6), 671-684. Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior , 11 (6), 671-684. and Lockhart, R. 1972) Levels of Processing: A framework for memory research. Unported License. Unported License. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e''s.

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Learning with e's

APRIL 8, 2012

In an editorial piece in the American Journal of Distance Education in 1989 Moore outlined his three levels. The American Journal of Distance Education, 8 (2), 30-42. The American Journal of Distance Education , 3 (2), 1-6. Interactions of the fourth kind by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0

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Learning with e's

JULY 29, 2019

I haven't given up on peer reviewed publishing, but I have turned away from closed journals and publications toward openness and accessibility. It's important to realise that the posts listed below have been amplified through social media, reposted and shared on various platforms, and also translated into other languages.

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Learning with e's

JANUARY 27, 2016

What can we learn from the open and free social media tools we use? Do we pay indirectly by giving away our information, is this leveraged to make money through advertising clicks, and do we become assets and commodities of the companies that run the social media services? Do we ourselves become the 'product' of those tools?

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

It could be argued that these findings support Vygotskiian social constructivist theory (Zone of Proximal Development - Vygotsky 1978) over Piagetian cognitive constructivist theory, confirming to those who adhere to ZPD theory, that human brains are naturally wired to learn better in social contexts. References Schwartz, M.

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Learning with e's

APRIL 27, 2011

Journal articles take so long to publish, they are often out of date long before the ink is dry. This is because they go through a process of peer review and revision, and then they can hit a brickwall if the journal has a significant backlog of accepted papers, and a page count limit (which most do). How about some monetary reward?

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Learning with e's

SEPTEMBER 12, 2010

The latest issue of the journal Interactive Learning Environments is a special issue entitled: Towards eLearning 2.0 social media can, and are being used to enhance, extend and enrich learning in higher education. by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

Thirdly, mobile technology is powerfully social. Access to powerful social media sites enables students to maintain perpetual contact with their peers, family and tutors, providing constant new opportunities to learn informally, on the move, and in many modes and formats. 2002) Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution.

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Learning with e's

MAY 20, 2015

Several peer reviewed journal articles (and a special issue in Interactive Learning Environments) also appeared, and countless blog posts were published. Personal devices and the free and widespread access to social media have amplified the concept of PLEs to the point that they have become ubiquitous, and therefore run of the mill.

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

A journal article by Kirk and Pitches (2013) is a useful starting point, because they identify three specific categories of technology that have a place in contemporary learning. 2013) Digital reflection: Using digital technologies to enhance and embed creative processes. and Pinterest. Reference Kirk, C. and Pitches, J.

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Learning with e's

JANUARY 27, 2013

Using your own personal devices to access learning, access peer groups, access social networking, access the ability to create and share content, anywhere and everywhere. As we're talking I'm watching citizen journalism going on, on the television in front of me. This London helicopter crash that has happened. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

JANUARY 16, 2016

A key feature of social media is its open architecture, because it allows all members of a community to easily modify, extend or delete content. Finally, it's highly appropriate that content within social media remains work in progress, because it reflects the fact that learning is never ending. References Engeström, Y. Wheeler, S.,

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 5, 2012

My own keynote will cover the proposition that social media, mobile technologies and the Web are together changing the way we perceive knowledge, learning and education. Tim flies by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 lar (Near East University, Cyprus). Unported License.

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